The municipality of Eastern Toten (Østre Toten) lies towards the the southwestern bank of the lake ‘Mjoesa’ and includes 562 square kilometers of what is mainly agriculture land.
Here live at total of 14 657 people, of which approximately 1152 (2014) live in or very near ‘Lena‘, which is the administrative center of this municipality.
‘Lena ‘, named from the river Lena’ was first established as a railway station on the Skreia railway line sometime around 1900.Her et bilde av hovedgaten (Lenagaten) i Lena, og som man vil ha forstått, det er ikke et av de største steder i Norge!

Close by lies the ‘Narum building’ which is the closest you’lll ever get to a shopping mall at ‘Lena’. Gradually a number of different businesses have found their space, the largest being the grocery chain ‘SPAR’.
Besides there are outlets from REMA, Coop and Kiwi here at Lena.Hjørnestensbedriften fremfor noen, i alle fall tilnyttet ‘landbruk’, er nok Felleskjøpets massive siloanlegg som ble bygget så tidlig som i 1937.

And here a picture of ‘Eastern Toten Athletic Park’; a large enterprise consisting of two large halls and a number of training fields which toay are owned by the local athletic clubs throughout the area of Eastern Toten. During daytime the facilities are used by the
Lena High School, which then becomes the primay partner to the athletic clubs whenm it comes to maintainance.

This is the ‘Lena Old Bath’. And it’s a sad story: The Lena Bath has through decades been a sosial meeting place with dance, waffles and coffee on a saucer; a social center that the people living in this area has been keen on using.
But when the municipality of Eastern Toten haven’t acknowledged their resposibility of maintaining the place, one day early January 2015 the doors were closed forever!
A facility that suddenly disappeared and which largely hit the elders in the area.
The politicians of today seem to think that they will not get any older. (And perhaps they are right?!) But facing time and gravity, they’ll be fighting a lost battle! The problem seems to be that you’ll have to pass 70 years of age before this sinks in? And the ones that once voted against maintainance have today left politics a long time ago!Men kanskje kan de finne trøst i et besøk hos den lokale baker’n på Lena? Man kan aldri vite? Plutselig gjør man et nytt bekjentskap verdt å ta vare på?!

But perhaps there is a solitude in visiting the local baker at Lena? You just never know?
Suddenly one day you may strike an aquaintance worth saving?!Det er ingen kirke på Lena, men Hoff kirke ligger bare snaue 3 km. unna!
Hoff kirke er en stenkirke fra det 11. århundre og har plass til 332 mennesker.

There’s no church at Lena, But ‘Hoff Church‘ is only a couple of miles down the road.
The ‘Hoff church’ is a sonte church from the 11- centyry, seating 332 people.
(Compliments of BXL/SRB )